Last couple of days have been intense the wrong way. Coming to work early, leaving late, usually frustrated and yesterday even after having accidentally deleted part of my latest work. But we are having quite a nice beginning of autumn here in Barcelona so it's no wonder my mood is still far from blue.
And starting from this morning, with a lot of work having been done, all three of my bosses out of town and with the latest Radiohead album pounding in my headphones, I am so far from being blue that I am "in rainbows".
Radiohead just put out their latest, (7th) album which apart from being really good ("Weird fishes/Arpeggi" has looped my mp3 player 5 times already) it is also revolutionary. It is only available through the web and moreover from Radiohead's own server without any record company occupying the space between creators and admirers (or should I say "believers"). What is more is that everybody can choose the amount of money he's willing to pay for the download, starting from 0 (that is zero) euros, pounds, dollars or whatever it may be.
But enough with the propaganda. Loyal funs know about all this already. This blog is supposed to be a bit auto-biographical so we are reaching this point, at the end of the posts, where talking about Radiohead (or football, or the full moon, or rain) needs to be put in some perspective regarding everyday life in Barcelona. I am not really sure about how to do this, but the fact is that music (as well as football, the weather or the full moon) affects everyday life not only in Barcelona but all over the world.
Italo Calvino once described a city whose citizens were linked with visible strings according to their relations. And in a similar way music, sounds, images and all kinds of stimuli are constanlty creating invisible pieces of string, out of which the fabric of societies is made. This fabric is also invisible although not in-perceivable. People can feel its stretches and wrinkles, sense its texture ever-changing from rough to smooth and vice versa. These changes cannot but reflect a collective mood which you can sense all around you, on the streets, in the coffee shops and restaurants, in the way joggers smile at you in the morning, the newspaper guy hums his favourite song (music again), the bus driver whistles and your colleagues joke about everything. I am pretty sure that starting you day (and why not continuing it?) by listening to a nice tune can really make a change in this world.
So at least for today people be prepared. Because my contribution into "softening the fabric" is going to be something more than positive.
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